“And now no one is going to eat it.” With those words, Zeli dos Anjos (60) seemed to want to prevent worse, but the damage had been done. Three of the Brazilian woman’s relatives would eventually die after tasting her “spicy Christmas cake.” The baker herself and her ten-year-old grandson are still in hospital, their condition is now stable. Traces of arsenic, a powerful poison, were found in the blood of the victims.

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